Umar Sani (born January 25, 1963) is Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Vice President Namadi Sambo of Nigeria.
Umar Sani began his career as a teacher when the teaching profession was exclusively preserved for the best from the academics.
On the completion of his youth service in 1993, he secured appointment with the Kaduna State Kada Payless Stores as HOD of Procurement where he served until 1997 at which time he also resigned to further his studies.
With the lift of the ban on political activities by the military regime of the late General Sani Abacha, he joined active politics pitching his tent with the Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN) as one of its founding members of the state chapter which appointed him its administrative secretary.
[4] Umar Sani received numerous awards in recognition of his hard work and perseverance from high school.